New Heavy Stubber balance - Gorgonum feels overtuned

Trauma is one of the best staffs for high int damn. I’ve always thought it was great but this seems to have become pretty commonly accepted on the Psyker discord as well so this isn’t even particularly controversial to say these days. I have nothing to add about stubbers but I had to correct this particular heresy.

Haha, my experience with trauma is still pre buff. Haven’t gotten decent blessings on one yet, my luck with blessings is terrible… I mean I just got deflector on my force sword and been playing since beta…
Look forward to a nicely blessed trauma though, never liked surge until I used it on damnation, maybe trauma is the same.

No, I actually can’t. I assume the implication here is that its the guy with the leading score but I’ll put down an alternative scoreboard from tonight. I finally got a decent one (don’t play my ogryn much) but its a 370~ with good stats and good blessings. It starts feeling kinda weak out past 40m. Its still good but it hardly invalidates other weapons. Its just the first good ranged weapon the ogryn has had.

This was hi-int STG on Damnation. Great game, everyone preformed very well. The only thing that looks “OP” in this image is the guy with the bolter (weapons are under their names in the placards at the bottom). But despite his high damage output even he isn’t really OP. Keep in mind he was running a power sword and was using it on the hordes. (good job by the way). I was shooting into hordes with my lawbringer. In real kills no one is way out ahead of anyone else and everyone had a fun game. But the gorgonum IS in 3rd place if we were going to rank order by scoreboard stats alone. Which doesn’t fully encapsulate how helpful various team mates were at various points with rezzes and the like.

Can you enable this in Scoreboard mod or this is your photoedit?

I use the power of my painstakingly developed, over 1 million hours of training, skill in MS Paint. Seems like the kind of feature that would be handy though huh.

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Spending a lot of time with Stubbers lately. Honestly the Achlys murks Krourk because it has no trigger delay, it shoots instantly. It also braces faster. Speccing for flak and unyielding its just better Krourk, damage fall off hits it worse but you don’t hit anything with these 2 where that actually matters (enough to make up for DPS).

Honestly trigger delay should be specific to the Gorgon. Krourk would be so much more usable without it.

The guns are fine. The amount of ammo you get with them is not. Atm you can literally walk forward firing from ammo drop to ammo drop with multiple stubbers in your team.

On Damnation it is OK. In my humble opinion Ogryn shines in close combat. As mentioned above Heavy Stubber deployment and reload times are crucial in the heat of hi-int Damnation. Also damage vs Crushers even with Blaze Away is worse than Ripper Gun with Can Opener. New Heavy Stubbers are fun, not OP.

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